The Second Act: Scene 4
Across 2014, playwrights Chris Summers and Jessica Bellamy are charting their progress on their journey from emerging to established playwright. This month, Jessica takes out her Compass… (enough with the journey metaphor…Ed. Check out previous reports, here, here, and here. )Last year, I was interviewed for a slightly embarrassing feature [...]
The Second Act: Scene 3
Jessica Bellamy and Christopher Summers are two young playwrights navigating the territory from bright young things to brighter, but slightly older things. Across 2103 they are charting their journey, which started in January, with Scene 1. So, onto Scene 3….enter Chris Summers.The theatre industry in Australia is small. If you’re [...]
4 X 4
We are thrilled to announce that our Fresh Ink mentoring program is going interstate! Working with leading Geelong-based playwright Ross Mueller and Sydney’s Jane Bodie, over the next 8 months Fresh Ink will be taking 8 of the most talented young playwrights from NSW and Victoria across a program of masterclasses, [...]
The Second Act: Scene 2
Jessica Bellamy and Christopher Summers are two young playwrights navigating the territory from bright young things to brighter, but slightly older things. Over the next 12 months they will be charting their journey, which started in January, with Scene 1. Now, Scene 2….with Jessica Bellamy. The setting, Perth. And it’s [...]
The Second Act: Scene 1
THE SECOND ACT is a blog about a year in the life of two playwrights – Jess Bellamy and Chris Summers – who are an exciting point in their emerging careers. Having met through the Fresh Ink program in 2009, they’ve since become friends, colleagues and professional confidantes. Jess and [...]
The Do’s and Don’ts of Writing for Young Audiences
Recently at atyp, leading theatremakers gathered for the first of the 2012 Fresh Ink forums, to talk about how writing for young audiences differs from writing for adults and what considerations and approaches should be borne in mind. Jennifer Medway went along to pick up some tips…. Moderated by Fraser [...]
Fraudulent Activity
When I was fifteen I wrote a story titled My Family Is A Fire Hazard and to this day it remains my writing masterpiece. It was, as my teacher announced in front of the class “a stunning piece of comic writing”. I left that classroom feeling elated, utterly convinced that [...]
Kim meet Tommy. Tommy meet Kim.
In our LOVE BYTES competition last year, 16 year old Kim Ho impressed our jury with his short monologue film Transcendence.BOOT writer Joanna Erskine loved it and Kim’s capturing of ‘a pure, authentic teenage voice‘ while atyp Artistic Director Fraser Corfield thought it ‘a very intelligent piece of writing (with) [...]
Treading softly…in Verona and Dublin
Jessica Bellamy, writer of LITTLE LOVE/BAT EYES, has been wandering Europe since BAT EYES screened at the Venice Film Festival, as a finalist in YouTube’s Your Film Festival. Here, she writes of Verona, and her visit to Dublin, where BAT EYES all began, when Jessica fell in love with Yeats. You [...]
A River Runs Through It
The word on everybody’s lips at National Studio this week is ‘Place’. It is the theme for the next year of The Voices Project. So what does place say? What does it mean? What is the journey place can take you on? What place will your journey take you to? [...]
